Prins, Herschel A

Offenders, deviants or patients? / Herschel Prins - Second Edition - London : Routledge, c1995. - xiii, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents
List of illustrations
Foreword / John Wood
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on case examples
Pt. I Legal and administrative frameworks
1 Problem areas revisited 1
2 Responsibility (liability) for crime 9
3 Systems of disposal 43
Pt. II Clinical considerations
4 Mental disturbance and criminality 87
5 Psychopathic disorder: a useful label? 119
6 Violence and homicide 143
7 Fire-raising 170
8 Sexual behaviour and misbehaviour 196
9 Will they do it again? 228
10 Training: enhancing understanding 252
11 Concluding comments 267
Name index 270
Subject index 274


0-415-10221-9 (pbk.)


Insane, Criminal and dangerous -- Great Britain
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Great Britain
Mentally ill -- Care -- Great Britain

DC 364 / P93